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Madagascar seemed the last place the King would want to see again. It is the Indian Ocean island to which the French had exiled the then Sultan in 1953, and kept him isolated for two years until his triumphal return to preside over Morocco's independence...
...triumphal tour to Caracas a fortnight ago, Castro sent Venezuelans into wild spasms of cheers when he told them: "Everywhere I hear the chant 'Trujillo next! Trujillo next!'" At Caracas' Central University, Castro himself tossed the first coin into a hat to launch a drive for $300,000 to start an invasion. Only 155 miles away from Trujilloland, bearded members of Castro's 26th of July Movement are already gazing longingly at maps showing the Dominican Republic's Cordillera Central, a forest region much like Cuba's Sierra Maestra. As Dominican exiles plot...
...main theme, announced by a menacing rush of pennants out of the mist. The peasant at the bridge is a contrasting grace note of peace. High above him the army has found a pass into southern lands, and now, serpentlike, it descends to the river. For a time its triumphal progress fades behind the soft, pine-muffled bulk of an island; then it reappears behind another island whose barren rocks are as abrupt as a cymbal crash. The picture opens out, like a swelling andante, into the expanse of the lake, the welcoming bridge. Above, square black flags...
...Twentieth Century (CBS, 6:30-7 p.m.). Cohesive film clips of De Gaulle in an earlier triumphal hour, entering liberated Paris...
...dictator of the Nile, after a triumphal pause in Damascus to greet the leaders of the Iraqi army coup, had returned to his capital for an occasion: the sixth anniversary of the army-led revolution that first raised him to power in Egypt...